world wide web

http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://www.one.org/international/blog/8-maps-that-will-change-the-way-you-look-at-africa/

http://www.one.org/international/blog/8-maps-that-will-change-the-way-you-look-at-africa/

The Scale of the Universe 2

this is just amazing, it is from 2012 I saw it a while ago, but today a friend refreshed my memory... 

it is still soooo cool

google you are pissing me off

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Find Masters in Europe: MastersPortal.eu

Masters in Europe: MastersPortal.eu:

I need to tag this page, for when the kids finally go to school and I will have free time for myself!!!

so far a few had grabbed my attention;

• M.A. Corporate Communication-  Sheffield Hallam University
• M.A. Online Communication-  Sheffield Hallam University
• M.A. / Master in Media and Communication-  European Graduate School (EGS)
• M.A. Communications, Media and Public Relations-  University of Leicester

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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/

Candy Candy full colour manga - KOREAN version -

The manga books finally arrived on Friday 11th of May -

pretty fast considering my husband order them on Wednesday 2nd of May.

We bought them from HanBooks.com (but the invoice is from AladdinUS.com

(or http://www.aladin.co.kr/home/wbookmain.aspx)

The (6) books cost $96 (so this is in dollars)

The shipping from USA (Los Angeles,USA to Eindhoven, NL) was $22

This made a total of $118 (i am not sure if there are any credit-card cost)

When the books arrived at the customs house in Amsterdam - they were taxed (giving the box a value of 110 euros = this should be the equivalent of the previous  $118) but over this value of 110 euros they charged;

• 6.60 euros taxes
• and 12.50 euros administrative cost (???)
• (plus 1 euro FORCED tip because delivery guy didn't have change with him)

 (GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, THE ROYAL FAMILY, THE POLITICIANS AND THE BUREAUCRACY OF THE NETHERLANDS) 


- The total amount we pay came up to 130 euros and 10 cents.

(my husband packed and wrapped them nicely for me (with leftovers Xmas-paper) - This was his present to me on Mother's day (this year felt on Sunday 13th of May)

I open them... This most be one of my favorites scenes ...  then my kids start opening and moving the pages too... so I panicked 

... and stored them away, nice and safe in a book-shelf. I hardly have time to see the books or enjoy them fully - I have to wait for the kids to be away or asleep ... (well I said this was a "MOTHER'S PRESENT", didn't I?)

There are six book (or volumes), is a handy size, hard covers - covers are in

B&W - but the cover's sleeves are in full colour), they are slightly smaller than a A5 or;

• Height - 19cm or 7 1/2 inches
• Width - 13 cm or 5 inches-  (total width or spread - 28cm or 11 inches)
• Thickness/spine - 2cm or about 1 inch

They also come in a handy box case, to store them away easily 

NOAM CHOMSKY - TOP 10 MEDIA MANIPULATION STRATEGIES ~

Manipulación de masas: manual de uso y disfrute (de Noam Chomsky)

1.- La estrategia de la distracción.
El elemento primordial del control social es la estrategia de la distracción que consiste en desviar la atención del público de los problemas importantes y de los cambios decididos por las élites políticas y económicas, mediante la técnica del diluvio o inundación de continuas distracciones y de informaciones insignificantes.

La estrategia de la distracción es igualmente indispensable para impedir al público interesarse por los conocimientos esenciales, en el área de la ciencia, la economía, la psicología, la neurobiología y la cibernética. “Mantener la atención del público distraída, lejos de los verdaderos problemas sociales, cautivada por temas sin importancia real. Mantener al público ocupado, ocupado, ocupado, sin ningún tiempo para pensar; de vuelta a granja como los animales (cita del texto “Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas”)”.

2.- Crear problemas y después ofrecer soluciones.
Este método también es llamado “problema-reacción-solución”. Se crea un problema, una “situación” prevista para causar cierta reacción en el público, a fin de que éste sea el mandante de las medidas que se desean hacer aceptar. Por ejemplo: dejar que se desenvuelva o se intensifique la violencia urbana, u organizar atentados sangrientos, a fin de que el público sea el demandante de leyes de seguridad y políticas en perjuicio de la libertad. O también: crear una crisis económica para hacer aceptar como un mal necesario el retroceso de los derechos sociales y el desmantelamiento de los servicios públicos.

3.- La estrategia de la gradualidad.
Para hacer que se acepte una medida inaceptable, basta aplicarla gradualmente, a cuentagotas, por años consecutivos. Es de esa manera que condiciones socioeconómicas radicalmente nuevas (neoliberalismo) fueron impuestas durante las décadas de 1980 y 1990: Estado mínimo, privatizaciones, precariedad, flexibilidad, desempleo en masa, salarios que ya no aseguran ingresos decentes, tantos cambios que hubieran provocado una revolución si hubiesen sido aplicados de una sola vez.

4.- La estrategia de diferir.
Otra manera de hacer aceptar una decisión impopular es la de presentarla como “dolorosa y necesaria”, obteniendo la aceptación pública, en el momento, para una aplicación futura. Es más fácil aceptar un sacrificio futuro que un sacrificio inmediato. Primero, porque el esfuerzo no es empleado inmediatamente.
Luego, porque el público, la masa, tiene siempre la tendencia a esperar ingenuamente que “todo irá mejorar mañana” y que el sacrificio exigido podrá ser evitado. Esto da más tiempo al público para acostumbrarse a la idea del cambio y de aceptarla con resignación cuando llegue el momento.

5.- Dirigirse al público como a criaturas de poca edad.
La mayoría de la publicidad dirigida al gran público utiliza discursos, argumentos, personajes y entonación particularmente infantiles, muchas veces próximos a la debilidad, como si el espectador fuese una criatura de poca edad o un deficiente mental. Cuanto más se intente buscar engañar al espectador, más se tiende a adoptar un tono infantilizante. ¿Por qué? “Si uno se dirige a una persona como si ella tuviese la edad de 12 años o menos, entonces, en razón de la sugestionabilidad, ella tenderá con cierta probabilidad, a una respuesta o reacción también desprovista de un sentido crítico como la de una persona de 12 años o menos edad (ver “Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas”)”.

6.- Utilizar el aspecto emocional mucho más que la reflexión.
Hacer uso del aspecto emocional es una técnica clásica para causar un corto circuito en el análisis racional, y finalmente al sentido crítico de los individuos. Por otra parte, la utilización del registro emocional permite abrir la puerta de acceso al inconsciente para implantar o injertar ideas, deseos, miedos y temores, compulsiones, o inducir comportamientos…

7.- Mantener al público en la ignorancia y la mediocridad.
Hacer que el público sea incapaz de comprender las tecnologías y los métodos utilizados para su control y su esclavitud. “La calidad de la educación dada a las clases sociales inferiores debe ser la más pobre y mediocre posible, de forma que la distancia de la ignorancia que plantea entre las clases inferiores y las clases sociales superiores sea y permanezca imposibles de alcanzar para las clases inferiores (ver “Armas silenciosas para guerras tranquilas”)”.

8.- Estimular al público a ser complaciente con la mediocridad.
Promover al público a creer que es moda el hecho de ser estúpido, vulgar e inculto…

9.- Reforzar la autoculpabilidad.
Hacer creer al individuo que es solamente él el culpable por su propia desgracia, por causa de la insuficiencia de su inteligencia, de sus capacidades, o de sus esfuerzos. Así, en lugar de rebelarse contra el sistema económico, el individuo se autodesvalida y se culpa, lo que genera un estado depresivo, uno de cuyos efectos es la inhibición de su acción. Y, sin acción, no hay revolución!.

10.- Conocer a los individuos mejor de lo que ellos mismos se conocen.
En el transcurso de los últimos 50 años, los avances acelerados de la ciencia han generado una creciente brecha entre los conocimientos del público y aquellos poseídos y utilizados por las élites dominantes. Gracias a la biología, la neurobiología y la psicología aplicada, el “sistema” ha disfrutado de un conocimiento avanzado del ser humano, tanto de forma física como psicológicamente. El sistema ha conseguido conocer mejor al individuo común de lo que él se conoce a sí mismo. Esto significa que, en la mayoría de los casos, el sistema ejerce un control mayor y un gran poder sobre los individuos, mayor que el de los individuos sobre sí mismos.

Noam Chomsky





The 10 Strategies:

1. The strategy of distraction
The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction which is to divert public attention from important issues and changes determined by the political and economic elites, by the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

Distraction strategy is also essential to prevent the public interest in the essential knowledge in the area of the science, economics, psychology, neurobiology and cybernetics.

“Maintaining public attention diverted away from the real social problems, captivated by matters of no real importance. Keep the public busy, busy, busy, no time to think, back to farm and other animals” (quote from text Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars).


2. Create problems, then offer solutions
This method is also called “problem -reaction- solution.”

It creates a problem, a “situation” referred to cause some reaction in the audience, so this is the principal of the steps that you want to accept.

For example: let it unfold and intensify urban violence, or arrange for bloody attacks in order that the public is the applicant’s security laws and policies to the detriment of freedom.

Or create an economic crisis to accept as a necessary evil retreat of social rights and the dismantling of public services.

3. The gradual strategy
Acceptance to an unacceptable degree, just apply it gradually, dropper, for consecutive years.

That is how they radically new socioeconomic conditions (neoliberalism) were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s:

• the minimal state
• privatization
• precariousness
• flexibility
• massive unemployment
• wages
• do not guarantee a decent income,

...so many changes that have brought about a revolution if they had been applied once.


4. The strategy of deferring
Another way to accept an unpopular decision is to present it as “painful and necessary”, gaining public acceptance, at the time for future application.

It is easier to accept that a future sacrifice of immediate slaughter.

• First, because the effort is not used immediately
• Then, because the public, masses, is always the tendency to expect naively that “everything will be better tomorrow” and that the sacrifice required may be avoided

This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of change and accept it with resignation when the time comes.

5. Go to the public as a little child
Most of the advertising to the general public uses speech, argument, people and particularly children’s intonation, often close to the weakness, as if the viewer were a little child or a mentally deficient.

The harder one tries to deceive the viewer look, the more it tends to adopt a tone infantilizing.

Why?

“If one goes to a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, because of suggestion, she tends with a certain probability that a response or reaction also devoid of a critical sense as a person 12 years or younger.” (see Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars)


6. Use the emotional side more than the reflection
Making use of the emotional aspect is a classic technique for causing a short circuit on rational analysis, and finally to the critical sense of the individual.

Furthermore, the use of emotional register to open the door to the unconscious for implantation or grafting ideas , desires, fears and anxieties , compulsions, or induce behaviors …


7. Keep the public in ignorance and mediocrity
Making the public incapable of understanding the technologies and methods used to control and enslavement.

“The quality of education given to the lower social classes must be the poor and mediocre as possible so that the gap of ignorance it plans among the lower classes and upper classes is and remains impossible to attain for the lower classes.” (See Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars).

8. To encourage the public to be complacent with mediocrity
Promote the public to believe that the fact is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and uneducated…


9. Self-blame Strengthen
To let individual blame for their misfortune, because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts.

So, instead of rebelling against the economic system, the individual auto-devaluate and guilt himself, which creates a depression, one of whose effects is to inhibit its action.

And, without action, there is no revolution!

10. Getting to know the individuals better than they know themselves
Over the past 50 years, advances of accelerated science has generated a growing gap between public knowledge and those owned and operated by dominant elites.

Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the “system” has enjoyed a sophisticated understanding of human beings, both physically and psychologically.

The system has gotten better acquainted with the common man more than he knows himself.

This means that, in most cases, the system exerts greater control and great power over individuals, greater than that of individuals about themselves.


References:

Article written by Sylvain Timsit, collected in Pressenza: “TOP 10 MEDIA MANIPULATION STRATEGIES. Paris. September 21, 2010. The article is derived from:http://www.syti.net/Manipulations.html

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. This document dated May 1979, was found on July 7, 1986 in an IBM copier bought at an auction of military equipment. Negligence or intentional leak, this text has been in possession of the secret services of the U.S. Navy. For safety reasons, the document does not include the signature of the organization where it came from. But information and dates clippings left believing that these Bilderberg Group, a " discussion club " that meets the extremely powerful worlds of finance, economics, politics, the armed forces and services secrets. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars was published as an appendix to the book "Behold A Pale Horse" by William Cooper, Light Technology Publishing, 1991.

Gersh, D. 1992, ‘Covering solid waste issues.’ Editor & Publisher 125(29 August): 15-6.

Lee, M.A., and N. Solomon 1990. Unreliable Sources: A guide to detecting bias in news media. New York: Carol Publishing Group.

NOAM CHOMSKY - TOP 10 MEDIA MANIPULATION STRATEGIES ~ The International Coalition:

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packing away the restored Baby Pram

This is a sad goodbye, well in reality is more "until I see you again"...we finally dissemblance the beautiful baby Pram (that my parents in law restored when Raquel was born in 2009 - we used two years later for Erik, but now both are way to big to sleep inside the carriage (even when this was originally two sits scrolled baby pram, we used or it was restored as a "baby crib")

It never left our bedroom, even when I felt tempted in more than one occasion to take it outside for a walk. I think my parent's in law did an amazing job, the red circle shows what is left of the old carriage (it also had the year and the maker’s name -But unfortunately we through that away, they only keep the structure - the old iron frame, and they made a new wooden body with fresh lining.

   

The carriage was (is) so beautiful - I felt so sad to have to pack it away to hide it in the attic ... for ... until... when is need again - probably in 20 years or so... by that time I will be the GRANDMOTHER!!!

Miquel Barceló diseña el cartel

No es que me interese los tauromaquia en particular (y desde luego las corridas me interesan mucho menos), pero no puedo dejar de pasar por alto el hermoso cartel que ha diseñado Miquel Barcelo con motivo de la ultima corrida que se celebro en la Monumental (plaza toros de Barcelona) el 25 de septiembre - con toda razon los 1500 carteles se han convertido en "estrella" del evento y en muy digna memorabilia

voces con futura, Descarga el cartel a5 haciendo click AQUÍ ...

voces con futura, Descarga el cartel a5 haciendo click AQUÍ ...:

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Video Tutoriales de Pintura

Voy a borrar unos archivos del disco duro del ordenador asi, que pense hacer un archivo online, al menos con los vinculos de estos tutoriales de pintura;  aunque algunos de los hypervinculos estan equivocados o no se corresponden con el año de emision o grabacion, y incluso a veces l os capitulos estan mezclados.. no se puede pedir de todo... aun asi he decidido ponerlos en el blog como referencia ya que pienso, esta solucion siempre es mejor que nada.

videos turotiales de la primera serie  (2007) http://www.kras-nogti.narod.ru/ris112.htm

videos turotiales de la segunda serie  (2008) http://www.kras-nogti.narod.ru/ris11.htm

videos turotiales de la tercera serie  (2009) http://www.kras-nogti.narod.ru/ris111.htm

es una pena que todavia no tengan ni la cuarta ni la quinta serie online, pero si tienen otros vinculos de dibujo y pintura que tal vez sean interesantes en un futuro

Kinetic Typography

Kinetic Typography (animated or dynamic text);



I made this video (using adobe after effect) a while back (in 2009), but I still like the over all result.

System Error - Democracy NOT found

Here is my contribution to "Civil Disobedience"

Feel free to copy, use or distribute this image (as long as it is not for economical gain). You can also download the Poster (compressed .rar file of 7MB). Follow this link to access the Spanish version.

System Error - Democracy NOT found by bequi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.bequi.com.

Error del sistema - Democracia NO se encuentra

Esta es mi contribucion a la "Desobediencia Civil"  (o desobediencia ciudadana) 

Eres libre de copiar, usar o distribuir esta imagen (siempre y cuando no sea para beneficio economico). Tambien puedes descargar el Poster (archivo comprimido .rar de 7MB). Sigue este vinculo para acceder a la version en Ingles.

ERROR DEL SISTEMA - DEMOCRACIA NO SE ENCUENTRA por bequi bajo licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Basado en un projecto a www.bequi.com.

Guia anti-antidisturbios

pequeña guia anti-disturbios, desobediencia ciudadana;  que no se entere mi cuñado "el poli"

20 Years Ago Today: The First Website Is Published

...that was August 6, 1991

Even so, my first time.. I will never forget it! September 1996, I was with Eoin, in a small room at St John's Central College Cork where I was a student... Yes Eoin, he was the first one to introduce me...
... to the internet...
... my very first time...
...YAHOO...




Yes, at that time internet pages or sites - consisted mainly of white pages with black text and blue hyperlinks, maybe even some small colour graphics or tiny pictures, if you were lucky enough to have a speedy-conexion, you might even be able to see animated gifs on your screen, ..the simple things of life... how wonderful!

I designed my first website (multimedia kiosk) by 1997 and I built my first site by 1998 (even so these were nothing more than college's project)

By the way, I always find it really cool to search the internet archive, to see the retrospective of how internet used to look & feel (way way way way back....)

responsive web design

A few weeks back (in BUZZ), Peter shared a quite interesting link  mediaqueri.es  The site contains a curated collection of responsive web designs and is aptly named after a feature of CSS3 which is called Media Queries. You can sort the list of sites by date or popularity and get inspired.


I have to give a "thumbs up" to Peter, as he also gave me an other really cool tip with his link to Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools, as always, he is ahead of my curve.. (Damn it! how much I "hate" developers)

sewing 101: how to make a hamper liner | Design*Sponge

on my to do list...

sewing 101: how to make a hamper liner | Design*Sponge

True size of Africa

true-size-of-africa.jpg (2482×1755)

The traditional Mercator map, which dates from around 1569, is accurate regarding shape instead of size. A mapmaker cannot accurately represent both — if you want an accurate shape for land masses, you have to sacrifice proportionality, i.e., the relative sizes will be distorted. Moreover, the distortion increases as you move away from the equator, becoming severe near the poles. This leads to what is known as "the Greenland Problem." Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, yet the land mass of Africa is actually 14 times larger:

Mercator
Gerardus Mercator, 1569
Cyllindrical Conformal[Lambert Conformal Conic with standard parallels at or equidistant from the equator]
Conformal: local angles are preserved, and local circles are not deformed — at every point east/west scale is the same as north/south scaleDistortion is constant along any parallel, and any parallel can be defined as standardConstant bearings (rhumb lines / loxodromes) are straight linesMap extends infinitely North and South
Google Maps (note the dynamic scale bar)[navigating a constant bearing]

Gall-Peters(in ArcMap, use Cyllindrical Equal-Area)
James Gall, 1855Arno Peters, 1967 (presented 1973)
Gall OrthographicPeters[Cyllindrical Equal Area with standard parallels at 45° N/S]
Equal-Area
UNESCONATOVaticanWorld Council of Churches

Winkel Tripel
Oswald Winkel, 1921
standard parallels of component Equirectangular at ~50° 27' 35" N/S
[mathematical average of Equirectangular and Aitoff]
Pleasant balance of shape and scale distortionUnlike other Winkel projections, there are no standard parallels on the final mapNo point is distortion-free
The Times AtlasNational Geographic (since 1998)